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Even in a summer of change, some things remain the same. NATASHA STAGG’s column is back. This week, for the first installment, she observes that certain constants – like FOMO and self-delusion – are here to stay.
Colin Lang went to a concert, outside, featuring three artists playing music next to the work of another artist, Simone Fattal. Angels, sirens, and guitars, all inside of a bombed-out cloister.
Liquid silk, pearl jam, primordial soup ... whatever your euphemism of choice, it's undeniable that we all come from it – so might as well make light of it, like Marlie Mul.
Are photos political, or simply passive containers for the ideologies that produced them? Colin Lang ponders on a tour of the photography triennial RAY 21, now in its fourth iteration around Frankfurt am Main.
The neoliberal myth of total free-flow – of bodies, art, and capital – is dead, even as the press trip lives on. After a year spent tethered in place, Ingrid Luquet-Gad visits the 14th Baltic Triennial, searching for the balance between connectivity and context.
Ditching the strictures of sports in favour of going pro in performance art, Yuki Kobayashi adopts athletics as a lens to reveal our reductive assumptions about sexuality and gender.
For this installment of Shoptalk, Spike sat down with Corina Reynolds, the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts, who aims to make hands-on experiences with book arts accessible to us all.
The Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker, born in 1924, and sadly passed away today (4 June), has written dozens of highly acclaimed books of poetry and prose. Her works are occasionally accompanied by her own drawings, sketches of floating figures with handwritten captions. The following excerpts are from a series of conversations between Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Ortmeyer, and Friederike Mayröcker, who drew as they talked about her writing routine and the price of a life dedicated to literature.
